Home-based services for troubled children
By: edited by Ira M. Schwartz and Philip AuClaire.
Contributors: Schwartz, Ira M.; AuClaire, Philip.
Series: Child, youth, and family services
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Problem children -- Services for -- United States; Juvenile delinquents -- Services for -- United States; Home-based family services -- United States; Child welfare -- Government policy -- United States
Description: There is mounting interest in services to strengthen families and, if possible, to keep them together, preventing unnecessary and costly out-of-home placements. Unfortunately, although these programs are proliferating throughout the country, many are developing without the benefit of existing historical, conceptual, and scholarly data, information needed to make sound fiscal policy and programmatic decisions.

This book fills this critical void, with a systematic examination of home-based services for abused, neglected, delinquent, and emotionally disturbed children and their families. With the most authoritative research on the topic to date, this book will be of interest to practitioners, policymakers, and child advocates.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.